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Dear Steins and Woody VASULKA,

Brussels, 5th August 1981

First of all, let me introduce to you :IMAGE VIDEOWe are an independent Video group and realise since two years videotapes with artists,theater croups,students,etc . . .Since the beginning of this year,we organise several meetings concer-ning art video together with J .P . TREFFOIS [RTBF LIEGE -BELGIANTELEVISION) . '

At the end of October, we would like to showvideo, and especially video tapes made with computer,within theframework of a festival of electronic music in collaboration with"OMEGA ALFA","RTE3F and IMAGE VIDEO" ; of course we are interestedin showing your work .We know very well your ancient video tapes ('BUFFALO'} but not yourrecent wCrrk .Can.~rou spend_us_a pronositio~r-for_a _program that il-lustrates this sbject .Concerning the rights, [being a cultural entreprise] it is truethat we are not very rich, but find it normal to share the productioncosts .We propose [ only for non profit use)'S US I for a minute .But extension of the rights is possible [see added proposition)

We are looking forward to have news fromyou, and thank you very much for your collaboration .

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The Independents

Dear Producer,

In the Iast six month:-or-so y .'ve racer`a letter from ,one inf~~ming you c~f-

~ I~'~ desire -to include your film or:videotape in ane of oux upec~miilg television-series.

-If'your work was slated for the documentary series sch~dul.ed

for release this fall, you've already received a contraat ::and-posse-ibly returned it to`us . If'your work was to be in one of ahe o-theyseries you have not recei ed a contract yet . In either case you mar,be wondering what's up :

Here's what's up : our attentions are focused on the docurn~ntaxy-series right now as its release date is rapidl~r approaching . As soon-as that series is cornpT~te work ;wil begin on the following seriesfanimationl-and then the third ser es~f ct on) . To complicate all --this I will be leaving the Center at the end of this--month to workon another project in Los Angeles .

My leaving will have a minimal effect on the operations of theIF`WC although it is likely tha

the- release of the fall series w '~abe postponed temporarily . Qnce a new Director has been hired thingswill proceed normally . If you need further information just write tfieIFVDC at`the address given on this letterhead .

Thank you for interest in the IFVDC we appreciate your patiencewhile administrative changes are being made .

Da~Dire for

P :~ . If you've sent us your film or tape for transfer it is beingreturned : The new Director gill contact you when he or she is ready-to begin post production .

State University of NewYork at Buffalo

FACULTY OF ARTS AND LETTERS

CENTER FOR MEDIA STUDY

Steina and B . W . Vasulka1600 Old Pecos TrailSanta Fe, New Mexico 87501

Dear Steina and Woody :

Here is the Earthworks Bibliography .Probing the Earth is the best book, if you can getit . I am hard at work at Woody's wonderful essay,and hope that he's working to extend and completeit .

Here is a suggested contract for CableTV prepared by Mr . Scott Vayer .

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ROOM 310 HOCHSTETTER HALL/BUFFALO, NEW YORK 14214 TEL.(716)831-2426

April 6th, 1981

Sincerely,

GERALD O'GRADY

FILM ART FUND INC.ANTHOLOGY FILM ARCHIVES80 WOOSTER STREETNEW YORK, N.Y. 10012

Jan . 15, 1981

Steina and Woody Vasulka1600 Old Pecos TrailSanta Fe,

New Mexico 87501

Dear Steina and Woody,

Looking through the materials you sent us two weeks ago, I amreminded by them of what I have wanted to do, but didn't have the

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:-=tit .I -may.--~havethe resources afterall, so I am proposing the following : that

if you want to, we can swap some of my 16 mm films for some of yourvideotapes (I have checked on the enclosed two sheets ten reels thatI want to swap) .

What I would like to swap for area Vocabulary,From Cheektowaga to Tonawanda, and Land of Timoteus .

Do any of the films interest you? If so, write or call me .

I hope to transcribe your interview later this month, and willthen send it to you for corrections .

Sincerely yours,

Robert A . Haller

ROBERT A. HALLEREXECUTIVE DIRECTOR

212-226-0010

October 1, 1981

Steina and Woody Vasulka1600 Old Pecos TrailSanta Fe, NM 87501


The Museum of Modern Art11 West 53 Street, NewYork, N.Y. 10019 Tel. 956-6100 Cable: Modernart

I have been asked to select twenty videotapes for inclusion in the Biennaleof Sydney, which is being held in Australia from April 6 through May 23, 1982 .The video program will consist of recent works by artists who currently areliving in the United States .

I am interested in having your videotape,

In Search of the Castle , 1981,be presented in the Biennale . All works will be shipped from the Museum ofModem Art, and we will need to have two copies of your tape by November 16 .The Rental Fee is 1200, and upon conplusion of the exhibition your two tapeswill be returned to you .

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Please read the enclosed materials, sign the loan forms, sending on the yellowcopy to the Biennale .

If you have not sent me your biography in recent months, I would appreciate yoursending an updated version right away . As well, it is important that I have ablack and white photo of the work by October 16 . I will be forwarding thesematerials on to the Biennale in mid- October .

With best wishes,

Barbara J . London

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Dear Woody and Steina,

Sincerly yours,

Paris le 05 . 02 . 81

Woody & Steina VasulkaMedia StudyBUFFALO

Next April a films and video exhibition will

happen in Paris : " FISSILMS " . It includes your

tapes which are availaible at London Video Arts .

Cine-Doc ( a documentation center created by

Guy Fihman, Claudine Eizykman, Dominique Willoughby

Prosper Hillairet et Catherine Le Gallou) will need

for the catalogue of this exhibition, and for its

oven Keeping

photographs and texts as precise as

possible about the following tapes

" Golden Voyage, Vocabulary, The Natter, Telc, Explanations

C . Trend, Heraldic View, 1 .2 .3,4 ., Soundsize " .

Would it be possible to receive these documents

as soon as possible (before the 15th of harch) .

We'll sand to you all

rcsultits-g from

this exhibition (catalogue, press . .

expecting you soon in Paris for another "Didactic

Steina Vasulka1600 Old Pecos TrailSanta Fe, NM

87501

Dear Steina Vasulka,

September 27, 1983

Catherine Lord asked me to contac you regarding yourwork . We are interested in building a collection of artists'videotapes at CalArts and feel that The West is one of thetapes that sould be included . We do have a copy of The Vasulkas ,1979, thanks to you when you were visiting artists at CalArts .We have a very secure arrangement for viewing tapes in thelibrary, so that the tapes are not misused or duplicated .Would you consider selling us a copy of your work and forwhat price would you consider it?

I would like to buy some slides of your work also .Do you have slides taken from your tapes that you would sell?I can pay $1 .00 per duplicate slide plus the cost of postage .Please send up to 20 slides representing your work to :

Evy WhiteCalArts Library24700 McBean ParkwayValencia, CA 91355

Again, the slides are a study collection and would not be duplicatedor sold .

Can you send us any other information . . . exhibition notices,clippings, a bibliography . . . for our files??

Anything that you careto send will be appreciated . Thank you .

Sin,cerely,

, _

Evy ~WftteArt & Slide Libn .

California Valencia 805Institute California 2551050of the Arts 91355

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12 April, 1982 .

Here's hoping that the Spring finds you well and that yourshow/presentation in March went well .

I was writing just as a reminder about the article for ourpublication, SOUTHWEST MEDIA REVIEW, was coming .

I understandthat we are firm enough financially to say that we will bepublishing in early summer, and so I am -oping that Woody isstill interested in writing for us . Our schedule has beenbounced around a great deal, but now seems to be rollingsurely toward the middle of May .

Can you let me know howthat sounds?

Also, we are readying for TERRITORY, our summer series on thelocal PBS, and we wondered if we would be able to programsome of your work again. Brevity is no problem . The showbegins in June, and we would like to know how you feel as soonas we can . Again, I believe that we could pay about $3/minute .

That's about all from here . Watch for the McDonald/Simsgeneric video Ark., soon to be the rage most everywhere .

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February 14, 1983

Greetings to you in the sun from me in the slush (actuallyit's not that bad-but how are you?)

Here is a video series I just finished . Hope you havesome time to look at it . There are 6 episodes at about30 mins each .

Do you know anyone I should try to sell it to? Anyoneat PBS you think might be sympathetic? (The master ison 1"

Would appreciate your sending these on to Ralph andSherry when you have finished with them . (Their address :RD#2, Box 235, Newark V lley, NY 13811)

Hope to see you sometime . Give me a call when you're inToronto .

Cheers'.

State University ofNewYork at Buffalo

CENTER FOR MEDIA STUDY

FACULTY OF ARTS AND LETTERS

July 26, 1979

Dear Vasulka Video,

Going through a pile of old notes and memoranda, I found one to myself arguingthat .) wanted a print of the film of Woody's that I once called "GRAZING" .

Istill do, and am willing to pay print costs, or trade in kind, or whatever elseis mutually satisfactory . However, I won't bring the matter up again for anothertwo years .

What sort of summer is it for you? I have heard distant rumors that the buffer isup : but of course I don't believe any positive or optimistic rumors about hardware .Seeing, though,is believing . I may be in Buffalo, very briefly, within the nextweek or so, & will check out your progress at that time . There was talk of somesort of meeting with Jay Leavitt and Lejaren Hiller, but it never amounted to morethan talk .

I'm trying to get out from under three years of piled up shit : business not attendedto, stuff unsorted and unfiled, letters never answered, Income Tax returns not filed,and so forth . It's very dull work indeed, & requires that I summon daily my fewremaining scraps of Protestant conviction . The amount of garbage is unbelievable,but gets smaller . Soon I'll be able to get into one or the other of the workroomsagain .

After enormous difficulties, I got the disk back from Processor : and indeed it wasfixed . Now I'm trying to sell it, and have no buyers . Everyone knows that PT isout of business, of course . Eventually, I'll dispose of it for the cost of thedrives alone, and feel lucky to get $1500 . All this would be easier to take ifI weren't broke : I must sell one disk to get another . And I can't use the PT one,for fear it will break down again . Thus far I've spent $3500 on it, and after 18months I still don't have a disk . Incredible! There's no hardcopy, either : theteletype has been inoperative since March 25, and I may be able to pick it up onMonday . Nobody wants to buy it, either . So I've largely turned into a paperprogrammer, which isn't helping my compiler design effort much . And I'm working upa new system, most of the components for which I already have . No, I'm not moving toLSI-11 because $20,000 for a peripheral, even a very spacious one, is beyond my reach. . .&

I

could never tolerate Schier's presence

in my

life for 3 years . . . so

it willbe Z80, with options to expand to an Intel 8086, a very interesting 16 bit machinefor which there are now I/0 and floating point co-processors . And, of course, nosoftware .

Nevertheless, the theoretical part of the compiler moves along . I'll test it inSeptember by rewriting the DEMON sound program as a disk-interactive compiler .Then it will be suitable to-real-time & even performance .

What else? Not much . I'm cooking a lot of curries, & Marion a lot of freshvegetables . Sta bene, 11A Q-~ L,

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1640 Como AveSaint PaulMinnesota 551081612) 646-4611

To whole bunchesof Minnesota Land-scape art-typepeople : Skip Blumberg,Cynthia Neil, Steina,Steve Christianson andJames Byrne .

Oh Hello!

Davidson is here, we have to get up at 5 :00am

and go up in a balloon again . The balloon is great, but

the 5 :00am you can keep .

July 18th

Anyway, this here being the first communicatiaii"--

real official like--from KTCA to you, I best get down

to oxide, as they say . I need a whole bunch of informa-

tion from all of you . Like, when are you coming, what

equipment will you need and what will you do?" You know,

small things like that .

Seriously, if I had even a week before Davidson came

to line things up, things would be going quite a bit

more smoothly for us (they aren't going badly, but they

could be smoother) . So in order to help you help me help

you, here's an overview of what's what .

Originally the budget called for $175/week for

equipment--period . We corrected that with some internal

help here (in-house services will absorb Quad tape and

studio assembly time, things like that),and by cutting

all time-related budget lines to 14 instead of 21 days .it"

The totals now look something like this :

$2,158 .00

equipment480 .00

editing700 .00

per diem3.50 .0 :0 : . :

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:d.ai:l :travelT3-,6-8-8 .00

per artist

Travel expenses vary and each artist can use 24 MBU 15's or the

equivalent . You can stay a year if you wish, but these are the

maximums . *

As far as equipment goes, local firms can rent us an Ikegami

HL79, and NEC, a Hitachi SK80 or a Sony 1610 with a Sony BVU 50,

BVU 100 or 3800 plus batteries and ancillary equipment--IF I KNOW

THE DATES! SEPTEMBER DATES ARE ALREADY GETTING TIGHT! Unfortunately

we are a union house and cannot provide in-house facilities .

Likewise with editing . Will you do it here or at home? 'I

need to book facilities if you edit here . Time base correcting,

by the way, will take place here after you send us thefinished

tape . It's done during the 3/4 to 1 inch transfer . And Jerry

Huiting, our Engineering Supervisor, will check each camera for

FCC specs before sending you into the field .

Miscellany : I need Social Security numbers for accounting

purposes .

I'm working on a new system now, but as it stands you

must return all unspent per diem with reciepts for that which has

been spent . Car rental : let me know if you can't drive, don't

want a car etc . I've been Davidson's driver for this piece . I

can do it again . Housing : I live in a house called Newgarden

*Except for Cynthia andperhaps Steina who have both scheduledfewer days and less equipment respectively . These funds arebeing used in the "other" catagory of our budget which providesthings like hot air balloons .

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Dates--Shooting dates :Rain dates :

Circle what you want :

Descriptions :

Project description :

Equipment I'll bring :

which is a three story house with 6 bedrooms, 2 bath"b, laundry,

a large kitchen and 5 people--all of whom happen to get along

quite well . We're 4 blocks from Lake Calhoun, 2 blocks from

the mercantile center of the area and 1 block from the liquor

store . Davidson says "I've not only survived, I've enjoyed

myself" about his stay . Small wonder . At $30 per week it

leaves quite a bit of per diem for indulgences in other areas .

That's it for now . I've enclosed an envelope to expidiate

matters . Call collect with questions (I will refuse the call,

get your number and return it on the WATS line).

Check List :

A room at NewgardenA rental carIKE

Hitachi

NEC

Sony 1610BVU 50

BVU 100 Sony 3800

Other equipment I need and other stuff in general

See you soon!

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SKIP BLUMBERG 415-648-2111282A Valley StreetSan Francisco, Ca 94131

JAMES BYRNE 612-647-08612328 ChillcombeSt . Paul, Mn . 55108

CYNTHIA NEIL 312-337-3160 Chicago Editing Center211 St . Paul St . 11 E . HubbardChicago 60614 (565-1787)

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PETER BRADLEY 612-825-7355Project Director 1458 W . Minnehaha Pkwy .

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18 January 1982

Dear Steina :

I've returned the other tapes in a separate box today, first-class .In this package is a 60-minute tape which I hope you can fill withdubs of NCET at RQED and pieces by Terry Riley ("Music With Balls")and Philip Makanna ("The Empire of Things"), if Media Study has them.They are in "Expanded Cinema" and s I would 41M really love to havethem for nostalgia's sake .

I appreciate very much your sending all those tapes .

I love the DavidByrne "Once In A Lifetime," and Ed Tannenbaum's dance tape . Don't caremuch for Toni Basil, But your work, especially the stroboscopic/switching3-D stuff is really fantastic and I want to do an interview with youabout your work, soon,

Bob Zagone was really ahead of his time ; the loops and feedback in theNCET stuff is really beautiful .

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Ms . Steina Vasulka1600 Old Pecos TrailSanta Fe, New Mexico 87501

Dear Steina :

By now, I hope you have received your material from theArt Institute . Sorry for the delay .

I notice that you will be attending the NAMEC conferencein Minneapolis ; I will be there also .

I am writing a papertracing the history of experimental video and I wonder ifI could interview you in Minneapolis sometime while you'rethere . I will be there from - the 8th to the 11th and wouldbe glad to interview you at any time convenient to you .I would particularly like to talk with you about the foundingof The Kitchen and the early days of video . Please let meknow if this will be possible .

I look forward to seeing you .

June 1, 1983

Sincerely,

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Joyce Bolinger


June 3, 1983

Here, finally, is a tape of all the "constructed

sound" pieces that V ve done to date ('79 - '83) .

I appreciate having your pieces, many are especially

effective projected onto a large screen with amplified

sound . This condition is what I prefer for my tapes as

well, i .e . somewhat powerful .

We'll know more later this summer about the disc

project . Here's our tentative schedule :

November 1983 - 1 week workshop, intro-session

with the three major artist groups .

Nov . 1 - April 1, 1984 - Artist 1 residency, production, etc .

March 15 - August 15, 1984 - Artist 2August 1 - January l, 1985 - Artist 3

January 1 - March 1, 1985 - Videodisc post-production

March 1 - May 15, 1985 - Final artists residency, post-

production, programming of partner computers

May 1985 - first performance

I'll be in touch soon .

Best Regards,

Vin GrabillThe Center For Advanced

Visual StudiesM .I .T . Building W-1140 Mass . Ave .Cambridge, MA 02139

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Dear Steina :

Thank you for your recent letter and enclosurespertaining to your books on video craft . I found the materialto be valuable and fascinating, but unfortunately, there isno way in which the Foundation can help at this point .

Ms . Steina Vasulka257 Franklin StreetBuffalo, N .Y . 14202

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March 1, 1979

Yours sincerely,

Howard KleinDirector

Jean-Paul TrefolsCentre Radiodiffusion-Television BeigePalais dee Cingrps4020 Aege

Dear anan-Paul ;

We have finally received your payment of $1600 in accord with our

underytandina as o"tlined in my letter of Parch 2 to you at your

hotel in Now York . Thanks .

cre rc.lmaino the matter of the 2 inch master of Woody VxFuIRa*s*

which he sent to you direct!; from Buffalo ir rarly June .

We have not aa yet receivee this, as provided for in said letter

of March 2, which calls for you to send thQ back directly.aftur

the programs have-. ; been transferred by you to European Standard .

aould you be good onovco, to return this directly to Woody at257 Pranklin Street, Buffalo, I .Y . 14202, USA via air mail ?

If, for any reason, you cannot locate the original taps' Vasulka sentto yop, Would you Xindly reimburse him the 0150 provided for inour aprowment and stated in item 1) in my letter of Yarch ? ?

it vou16 be nice to hear from you .

Yours truly

16 October 1978

ELECTRONIC ARTS INTERMIX, INC .

84 FIFTH AVENUE

NEW YORK, N.Y. 10011

(212) 989-2316

16 October 1978

Dear Woody & Steina ;

I'm enclosing your royalty statement for the 3rd quarter .

It includes the Belgian TV payment, which, by the way iscalculated at 60% of the fee for the artists (you and Steina) .

According to our understanding with Jean Paul Trafois, he issupposed to return the 2 inch master to you, otherwise he isto pay you $'Ml

. I am writing to him per the enclosed .

By the way, we just received their payment the other day--finally 1 It was like pulling teeth . Our bank tells me that

it will take 30 days to clear, but I'm sending your share now .With best regards,

Yours

Howard WiseQ

THE SENATESTATE OF NEW YORK

JOSEPH A_TAURIELLO

ALBANY 12247MINORITY WHIP

Ms . Steina VasulkaVasulka Corporation257 Franklin StreetBuffalo, New York 14202

Dear Ms . Vasulka :

January 5, 1979

I was pleased to learn from the New YorkState Council on the Arts about the recentawarding of funds to your organization tosupport your efforts in the fields of musicand theatre appreciation .

If there is anything I can do to assistyou in the future, please feel free to contactme .

Sincere

PH A . TAURIELLOority Whip

311 LEGISLATIVE OFFICE BLDG .ALBANY, N .Y. 12247518-472-6700

N . Y_ STATE OFFICE BLDG .SUITE S03-50465 COURT STREET

BUFFALO,NEW YORK 14202716-842-4642

To : Steina Vasulka

From : David Shapiro

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207 DELAWARE AVENUE " BUFFALO, NEW YORK 14202 " 716/847-2555

Gerald O'Grady and myself have considered your request for home use ofthe 3/4" Panasonic deck . As a rule we do not allow this equipment tobe used outside of Media Study, however our feeling was that this situ-ation constituted an exception . It is our understanding that the tapes arebeing prepared for international competition and that it is necessaryfor you to interface this deck with your own home equipment .

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This is to record your loan of $10,000 to Media Study for a period of me year. . . :.The debt will be dus on Jaoaary 9, 7977.

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The collateral for this loan is our egnipamt sad our property.

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I'm enclosing a list, along with cancelled checks and some receipts, of allpayments ride by Media Study/Buffalo against your Marine Midland Line of Creditloan. Media Study has paid a total of $950 .61.

It seems as though the bank wascorrectly deducting the payments that were made doubley by Media Study/3affaloand yourself.

If things are still not completely clear, please give me a call.

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Mrs . Stoisa ®asnlka297 Bradelin StrutBuffalo, Now York 16202

Dear Steins,

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October 27, 1976

I's "closing a fiat, along With *eRcalled Checks and soap receipts, of allpats made by Media Study/Buffalo against your Marisa Midland Line of Creditloan . Media Sturdy hu paid a total of $990 .61 .

It seer as though the beak mecorrectly dedaating the payaeats that were as" doubisy by Media Study/Buffaloand yoarself .

If things are still not completely al"T, pleas gives m a call .

Best,

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Hello Steina,

Love,

David Lee

I'm applying for a film grant k to continuethe work I did for my kthesis . I regret I wasn't ableto show it to you .

Someday, I'm sure . Jonas thinks .it my most ambitious task . Gerry saw it three timesand Brian talked with me about for an extended periodof time .

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On my last day of getting my degree theNorthern Lights were out when I was walking at 5 a .m .'I left with much kindness from friendsand students . I also left x stories (true or untrue)of a beastly nature . Guess its better to neitherbelieve your admirers or your enemies .

P.S. if you'd like to send a letter of supportJerome Foundation, Inc .West 1052

First National Bank BuildingSt . Paul, Yinn . 55101

October, 9, 1978c/o Jean Se ibel , 1120 E . 19th

NYC, N .Y .

May 7 1979

Dear Stein& Vasulka

Thank you very much for your note for my letter.

Therefore, i havn " t recieved the tape from Prof. Mitsu Kataoka from UCLA,I would like to request again to make a co y of the Nam JuneS interviewwith TV Woman, Cameraed by you . I will sen your tape, Please,would you send me a cppy to my home address.

Sorry to trouble you, but, I think that your interview with Nam Junewas well videotaped and one of the best interviews which Nam June hasever had in his life . I like it by myself quite a lot .

Thank you very much for ,- ,r patience and co-oparation .

Looking forwards to seeing you both, Woody and you very soon .

Love

Shigeko Kubot

110 mercer st

May 10 79

Dear Steina :

I'm sending a check to copy Nam June's interview, instead ofsending a tape .

I guess that you videotaped it last summer, now, I'm leavingto Berlin soon . Please, send the tape as soon as possible .

My questions for you,1) How long is the tape?

2_) Do you have a date of the interview?

3) Sofar, who has a copy?

( I know that Ralph has one s whoelse'

Thank you for your ck-oparation .Looking forwards to seeing both, Woody and you .

VIhen do you visit New York? You are invited by my11h _tney Museum's party on the 25th of may, Friday, at6 oxclock.

Love

Shigeko

GENE YOUNGBLOOD


TEL: 213-656-7527

October 10, 1979

My Dear Friends :

Here's the show-and-tell itinerary that's going to save my ass thiswinter . It'll be exhausting but lucrative . I'm trying to generateenough money so I can get to work on my book in January and finishit by May or June . I've been talking to Phil Morton about a full-timeteaching job in Chicago starting Fall, 1980, and so far it looks good.Dan Sandin says he might be able to get me some part-time gigs atCircle as well . So I may be moving to Chicago in the fall of 1980 . . .

Meanwhile I'm living on unemployment and borrowing money from my motherto pay the rent . Things are pretty tight : I'll have only about $50 tomy name when I leave for Baltimore October 23rd, on borrowed plane fare,wearing a borrowed coat . . .

WARNING : Unfortunately, the acid I sent you isn't good . Hope you haven'ttaken it yet . I did the other night, and it didn't feel good at all . Justkept me awake all night, no hallucinations, no head trip, just janglednerves . Too bad . . .

I've applied for a Rockefeller Humanities Fellowship ($15,000) whichmay or may not come in February . Also am talking to Ed Emshwiller abouta part-time job at Cal Arts around that time . So with lecture fees anda teaching gig I'll make it through the spring and finish THE FUTURE OFDESIRE at last .

I think of you both often and want very much to see you again . I hopeyour travels here and abroad have proved useful . Please let me hearfrom you . I miss you both . . .

The KITCHEN CENTER59 WOOSTER STREETNEW YOZ K, NEW YORK10012(212) 925-3656

Friday, 23 March 1979

Steina Vasulka257 Franklin StreetBuffalo, New York14202

Dear Steina,

Just a note to thank you for loaning the Kitchen Center your tape . It was shown to severalpeople who had stopped by the gallery to see your show after it was taken down and althoughit was no substitute for the installation it managed to communicate some information about thework .

Again, many thanks and best of luck with your endeavors in Buffalo .

Sincerely,

enc . 1 video cassette .

The Museum of Modern Art50th Anniversary

rooMarch 6, 1981

Steina Vasulka1600 Old Pecos TrailSanta Fe, New Mexico 87501

Dear Steina,

Thank you for sending the tapes and the two invoices .

I appreciate yourmaking a reduction in the cost of Canteloupe and offering to include otherworks, as well . All of this makes a big difference with our limited funds .

We have decided to acquire Canteloupe , and with your permission wouldlike to call Exor a gift.

Please letme know if that is alright.

The secondcassette is being returned under separate cover.

Let me know when you and Woody wi I I be on the East Coast.

With warm regards,

Barbara J . London

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11 West 53 Street, New York, N.Y 10019, 212-956-6100 Cable : Modernart

Dear Woody and Steina Vasulka :

I am writing to confirm of my letter to you of February5th., requesting the one hour tape including four workswhich you recommended .

I would like to purchase your tape as soon as possible,and will appreciate your instructions on how and to whereI can tranfer the money . Please tell me which bank andwhich account I should forward the currency to .

Also, I had asked in my last letter, if you could kindlywrite a simple note on your creative concept .

Since thestudents in the two art universities which I teach at, arenot very familiar with electronics, I thought your writtenmaterials which you have already sent to me, may be toocomplicated for them to understand . If it is not much trouble,I would be pleased to have short comments on the works inyour one hour tape.

The Japanese school year commences from April, and I amvery eager to be able to show your wonderful works to mystuaenL.s . Thank you for your cooperation.

My best regards,

sincerely,

hotaraU iyamaProfessorTama Art University

April 13, 1981

InstructorTokyo National University of Art

Valencia

California Institute of the ArtsCalifornia 91355805 255-1050

School of Film and Video

3 March 1980

Dear Woody & Steina :

I've convinced the library here that they should lease an hour ofyour selected works on a "life of the tape" basis, if you're inter-ested . I guess it would be around $200 plus cost of cassette, etc .Let me know if you want to . Perhaps it could be a copy of the tapeyou're putting together for me . . .

I'm starting a brief four-week "mini-course" on Video Art at the ArtCenter College of Design in Pasadena -- a commercial art school wherethey learn to draw air-brush Buicks and make perfume commercials .They've never seen anything like the tapes I've been showing them .Blows their standard little minds ; in any event, I'd like very muchto show them your digital work if you can get that tape to me byApril 21 .

Hollis Frampton will be here for a week starting next Monday . It'llbe amusing to see how he interacts with this place for five days . . .

I now have an offer to teach in Berkeley for a year, full-time salary,starting January 1981 after I get back from Chicago . Decisions arethe curse of the free . I miss you both a lot and hope to see you inlate May in Santa Fe .

More later .

G

Valencia



17 February 1980


Hello . Hope you're settled down and back to work again . I don'thave time for a long letter but I did want to mention the followingbefore you come out here next month :

I'm trying to assemble a collection of tapes, both for my own personalenjoyment and for teaching video art . For these reasons, as well asour friendship, I want very much to have more of your work, such asHeraldic View, Solo For 3, Golden Voyage and 1-2-3-4 . In addition tothese 'middle-period' works, it's very important to me to have examplesof Woody's more recent digital experiments, and Steina's flip/flopswitcher works and the new piece Stasto .

I've bought two one-hour Sony cassettes which I'm holding for yourvisit here, hoping you'll let me make copies of these works . We havea TBC in the color studio which I can use on Wednesdays for makingtransfers . I will be eternally grateful for this ; and if you feltyou wanted to be paid, I'd be glad to do so, although it would haveto be on some kind of installment plan . It means a lot to me, andI'm willing to give you whatever you'd want in exchange .

There are two other tapes you have which I'd like copies of . One isRon Hays's Introduction To Synthesizers . I asked Ron for a copy and hecouldn't find it ; he said I could have one if I could locate a copysomewhere . The other is Portrait Of Six Video Artists (you, Etras,Sanborn/Fitzgerald) . Would you allow me to copy this as well?

I am now very seriously planning another book along the lines ofEXPANDED CINEMA , which would deal with new video tools and artworksproduced through them . Mainly it would be an "art" book, not a tech-nology book . I only know it will include your work, and that of JuanDowney and Bill Viola . Others will be added . . .

So my strategy looks like this :

1980 -- Teach at Cal ArtsPrepare outline and two chapters of THE VIDEOSPHEREFinish THE FUTURE OF DESIRETeach at Art Institute of ChicagoAssemble collection of tapes for teaching

1981 -- Return to Cal ArtsLearn video production skills & make videotapesWrite new book on Video ArtFinish THE VIDEOSPHERE (Maybe, if sufficient money in advance)

I'm anticipating your visit here with much happiness . Perhaps Reneehas already told you we'll be having our Contemporary Music Festivalthe same week (brochure enclosed) . It'll be a wonderful time!

I got a letter from Andrej Zdravic and will try to get him a gig herein early May . . .

Also, I called Stan Lawder about a gig for you ; he thinks it won't bepossible ; I have one other idea which I'll pursue soon, but it isn'tlikely .

I'm lecturing at Bowdoin, Dartmouth and M.I .T February 23-27 .

See you here in March .

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PS : The people in the Art History Department at the Art Institute ofChicago have asked me to recommend videotapes for them to purchase .Naturally I'm recommending your works . . . this will happen in thefall .

Valencia



6 March 1980

Steina :

In addition to the tapes I mentioned in my last letter, pleaseinclude the "digital tape" you showed in my class -- from the basicelements of boolean algebraic algorithms to the "multiplier zoom ."

Bless you both ., . .

Valencia



13 March 1980

Dearest Friends :

I've been thinking about you both, and how wonderful it was to seeyou again . Perhaps next time we can be together in more serenecircumstances .

I'm sorry to say that I couldn't find your hat, Woody . I went backto the restaurant that afternoon but they knew nothing of your hatand we looked around but couldn't find it . This happened to me also :I once left a one-of-a-kind hat in a restaurant in Chicago and DanSandin went back the next day to no avail . . . I'm sorry ., .it's sad . . .

I've been thinking about your digital video work ; it's real*y verybeautiful and promising . Please include as much of it as possibleon the tape I gave you -- especially the multiplier-zoom and thepiece showing the 64 levels of color -- but also all the other digitalexamples . It's the most important material you have, I think, I wantto do an essay on your work sometime later this year . . .

I'm planning to visit either in early may or mid-June . Will keep youinformed about that . Meanwhile, if you still have that tape of Ron Haysexplaining how synthesizers work, I'd like very much to get a copy ; Rondoesn't have one himself, and believe it or not, neither does WGBH!I could send you a 20-minute cassette, or wait until I visit ., .

Love to you both

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\VV)ADecember 28, 19'76

Would one and/or both of you be able to rent mea tape (appr . 30 min total) for our February 1stshowing in Dundas . I am putting on a program of"video animation", including work by Ralph HockingAl Razutis, Jane Wright, Jean Pierre ( I hope) andyou .Our rental f e is unfortunately only $1 miqute forone showing ~eg . $30 for 30 min),

' ok, ' ok .I hope you have a dub you could send . Mail it tome at 128 Hess St . S . or c/o Dundas Valley Schoolof Art, 21 Ogilvie St .,Dundas, Ont . It will be

Thanks very much foryour trouble, andHappy New Year,

returned promptly by mail .I took the liberty of putting your name on theprogram for February 1, so hope it can be arranged .The May3personal appearance is also still on butI'll be in touch about this later .

Jane Wright

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July 1, 1981

Chicago Editing Center11 East Hubbard - Chicago - 60611

(312) 565-1787

I am writing to invite you to serve as an Artist-in-Residencewith the Chicago Editing Center during the October,. 1981 -May, 1982 program period .

I hope that you will be interested in serving a two-dayresidency including a special seminar or workshop for ourmembers and a showing of your work for the general public .

We have received grants from several sources for ourArtist-in-Residence program and can cover your travel andother expenses and are able to offer you an tronorarium of $200 a day

Please let me know if you will be able to participate in ourprogram .

I look forward to discussing your residency with you .

Sincerely,

Joyce BolingerExecutive Director

Dear yasulkas :

July 6, 1981

I hope all is well with you both, and that youwill excuse me for not contacting sooner .

Thank you sincerely for sending the tape ofyour works . I have been very impressed by themalready . Please let me apologize for the delayin sending you the check, which I have enclosedin this letter here .

I would appreciate if we can further exchangeworks and information in the future like this .

As for news from Japan, you may have alreadyheard about "SPIRAL RTL" created by Tom Defanti,Dan Sandin and Mimi Shevitz, which has won SpecialPrize at the International Video Art FestivalPortopia '81, held in Kobe . I am sending snapshots of Tom Defanti who demonstrated computor artat the festival, for your interest .

Please let me know if you have any favors to askof me concerning information or material that youwish to obtain from Japan . I will be happy tohelp you .

I send my best regards .

Yours sincerely,

-rGG~J


February 5, 1981

Thank you sincerely for your letter of January23, suggesting your selection of works .

I appreciated your offer and wish to purchase theone-hour tape, including your four pieces of work .I am very interested in your other works, however,cannot judge only from the written information . Iwill rely upon your selection this time . Pleaselet me know how to send you the money .

If you haveany particular bank for transaction, please let meknow your account number, etc .

At the moment, I am able only to purchase tapes ofartists within my own; money, which unfortunatelyallows a very limited collection . I am though, veryeager to convince the university to start developinga tape library and if we are lucky, I intend to askmore in the future . I may ask you to lend us sampletapes so that we can choose what we need . I cannotpromise now, but I am looking forward to correspond-ing more frequently in the future with you, and willappreciate your cooperation very much .

There is one favor I would like to ask of you . Couldyou please send a brief comment of the concept, oridea ( philosophy?) behind your works? To my regret,the students in our university do not have much inter-est, or should I say intellect, in the technologicalfield, and the very precise explanation that you havealready sent to me of your works will probably be toodifficult for them to understand . I intend to teach.more of software rather than hardware,(or _how to create)although I know both are important . I will appreciateyour help and understanding .

I will be waiting for your instructions . Thank you, andbest regards .

in&erely yours,

chi maProfessor, Gr~phic DesignDepartment .

GENE YOUNGBLOOD


TEL: 213-656-7527

15 January 1981

Dear Steina :

I've enclosed my plane ticket receipt and the Master Charge receiptshowing the forged name of Bohuslav W . Vasulka . Many thanks forletting me do it this way .

As you can see, the fare increased by $33 since I first inquireda peek ago -- from $155 to $188 . I'll reimburse you for the dif-ference if Bob Gaylor can't cover it . But that'll have to waittill I get there cause I'm broke now .

I arrive in Albuquerque on TWA #490 at 2 :16 p .m. Friday, Feb . 13,and I leave at 5 :30 p .m. the following Monday . That gives us almostfour days .

I've been reconsidering what you said about your collection ofearly videotapes and your interviews with pioneer artists . Thesecould in fact be quite important in my teaching and curatorialactivities . So let's arrange a time to look at them .

I would bevery interested in making duplicates for my teaching collection .I'm getting several thousand dollars tax refund sometime in Apriland then I could afford to pay for dubs . Also with part of thatmoney I'm going to buy my first portapak!

I'm really excited . . . .

It will be wonderful to visit you and Woody .

I'm eagerly anticipat-ing interviews with both of you, and just enjoying your company. I'llbring the Sturgeon and Oursler tapes as promised .

See you soon .

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In a brief moment before lunch, I thought that I wouldjust write again and remind/encourage/enjoin Woodyof his long sought after article on video . And to saythat we should hopefully get going towards the end ofMarch, with Don Quaintance as editor .

Has anything else happened? Yes . Laurie McD went tothe U S Film and Video Festival in Utah, as her Rattlesnaketape was a finalist, and while there bobbed for applesin the Osmonds' hot-tub during a party .

Good luck with your work .

23 February, 1982 .

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Dear Steina & Woody,

Best of luck with your work .

9 December, 1981 .

How are things in Santa Fe? We saw the article in AMERICAN FILM--hopeyour phones are buzzing .

We are organizing for a Spring issue of SOUTHWEST MEDIA REVIEW, a copyof which is enclosed . Ed recalls your interest/willingness to do anarticle for it . What Ed hoped for was a manifesto of your work : yourproblems, your objectives, your methods . Additionally, you might saywhat you feel the state of computer-enhanced imagery to be now .

As an honorarium we can pay $100 .00, the approximate length of thearticle to be that of those in the enclosed copy of SMR (25-3500 words) .But it should be as long or as short as you need it . Also, any photo-graphs which you feel would enhance the article would be appreciated .

We will be calling you to see how you feel about this . Any help thatwe can give you in the writing we will be glad to do .

Sincerely,

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The deadline approaches . From across the region Swamp has received

commitments from a number of reviewers and filmmakers to contribute

writing for the Southwest Media Review (as you no doubt realize) .

The absolute, final and unequivocal deadline is January 31, 1981 .

Please send your article as soon as possible so that we can complete

work on this new publication . Honorariums will be paid upon

receipt of final copy .

If I can be of any assistance in helping you to complete your

article, or if you have any further questions, please contact me .

Also if you have access to any stills or other photos relating

to your essay, please include them .

Please excuse the form letter format of this "subtle" reminder .

Best wishes for the New Year .

Sincerely,

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Dear Steina VASULKA,

PARIS, le 3 Mars 1982

M, Steina VASULKA1600 Old Pecos TrailSANTA FENEW - MEXICO 87501

I hope you enjoyed your stay in Europe and your (short) visitto INA. I write you, as settled in Paris, to confirm you Mrd6sire to insert your "SOMERSAULT" in our TV Magazine "JUSTEUNE IMAGE".

You will find enclosed an order. As to the rights for one TVbroadcast in France I propose 120 S par minute, which are600 S for the program including the shipping expenses (betterthan Ikamfs nothing 1). If you agree with this please send usas quick as possible a 3/4 inch print and a correspondinginvoice so that we can pay you.

Would you be find enough to phone me or send me a short letterto confirm,

Regards,

Le Responsable des ProductionsDocumentaires Et d~Archives

Telefon 07221/23250 and 25390Stadtsparkasse Baden-Baden 05108 Staatliche Kunsthalle 7570 Baden-Baden Lichtentaler Allee Sa

Mrs . and Mr .Steina and Woody Vasulka1600 Old Pecos Trail

USA-Santa Fe, New Mexico

March 3rd, 1982 SH/la

Dear Mrs . and Mr . Vasulka,

thank you very much for your video documentation .Although we do not intend to show video tapes inthe near future I should like to keep your materialuntil the return of our director Dr . Katharina Schmidtat the end of March .

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CMENA FGROOJEC7

DEAR WOODY AND STEINA :

GOOD SPEAKING TO YOU YESTERDAY . OUR SPIES, KEN AND PATTI, HAVE

ASSURED US THAT BASED ON THEIR RECENT VISIT, YOU'RE BOTH DOING

WELL .

I NEGLECTED ANOTHER ITEM : WE WOULD LIKE TO BORROW OR OBTAIN

MORE B+W STILLS FROM "THE ART OF MEMORY", NEEDED BY AUGUST 1

FOR THE KURT/CHANNEL 8 PROGRAM GUIDE . THANKS .

JIM ("THE HUSBAND") AND I HAVE WRITTEN OFF TO A PLACE IN TOKYO

WHICH HAS A NOTICE IN "THE INDEPENDENT" ASKING FOR VIDEO-SAVVY

SORTS TO TEACH ENGLISH IN JAPAN FOR A YEAR . MAYBE WE'LL SEE

YOU OVER THERE .

I AM STILL TRYING TO SET UP A WORKSHOP FOR STEINA IN AUSTIN IN

AUGUST, AND SHOULD BE ABLE TO CONFIRM THIS NEXT WEEK .

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Steina and Woody VasulkaRoute 6, Box 100Santa Fe, NM 87501


Sincerely,

Kira PerovVideo Assistant

CITY Of LONG BEACHLONG BEACH MUSEUM OF ART

2300 EAST OCEAN BOULEVARD

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(213) 439-2119

THE ARTIST & THE COMPUTER, curated by Kathy Huffman, closed in Marchof 1983 and since that time the Long Beach Museum of Art has receivedmany enquiries about the possible touring of this exhibition .

The only .two sections to be considered for travelling are Programs3 and 4 of the videotape selection which include mostly work done byvideo and film artists in their involvement with the computer .Twenty-seven artists are listed in a program (enclosed) of 20 video-tapes totalling 1 hour and 45 minutes duration .

If it is unanimously agreed that this portion of the exhibition willcirculate, given the number of artists, the minimum fee that we canhope to receive for each work is $20 .00 . At present we must workwith figures that seem realistic to most institutions, who are willingto rent the show for $400.00 . Most of the works are very short, whichserves to give the programs an interesting scope and covers importantareas of non-static computer generated imagery .

Please sign the enclosed agreement and return one copy as soon aspossible so that we can begin to book the exhibition .

If you haveany questions please get back to me by letter or telephone by July 8,since there are possible bookings for August, 1983 .

DEPARTMENT OF RECREATION AND HUMAN SERVICES

Long Beach Museum of Art, hereinafter referred to as LBMA and'to ii Ti` `

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hereinafter referred to asARTIST, agree as follows :

1 . . LBMA will act as agent to the ARTIST, whose videotape/film7 ©C-T? 1̀ :

has been

selected to travel in THE ARTIST & THE COMPUTER : VIDEO exhibition,

in matters related to this exhibition.

2 . The ARTIST's fee for each exhibition is

$20 .00 minimum

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All rights of the ARTIST's videotape remain solely with

the ARTIST.

4 . LBMA does not have the rights to publicly show the above-

mentioned videotape except in context of THE ARTIST & THE COMPUTER :VIDEO and only when the ARTIST has been informed of screening

or exhibition location and dates, and will receive the above-

mentioned fee as a minimum honorarium.

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THE ARTIST & THE COMPUTER: VIDEO

PROGRAM A

PROGRAM B

LONG BEACH MUSEUM OF ART

SUNSTONE by Ed Emshwiller 1979 3 minutesProduced at the New York Institute of Technology, programmingassistance : Alvy Ray Smith, Lance Williams, and Garland Stern

MONTANA by Jane Veeder

1982 3 :38 minutes

ARABESQUE by John Whitney, Sr .

1975

6 minutes35mm film transfered to video ; programming assistance :Larry Cuba; computer graphics : Information International, Inc .

AURORA SYSTEMS by JoAnne Gillerman

1982 2 :48 minutes(silent) Chuck Kosak, Assistant

PROGENY by Steina and Woody Vasulka with Bradford Smith1981

17 minutes

DIGITAL REFLECTIONS by Frank Dietrich with John Goss andDebbie Gorchos

1981

4:50 minutes black and white

SPIRAL 5, P .T.L . (PERHAPS THE LAST) by Dan Sandin, Tom DeFantiand Mimi Chevitz

1981

6:30 minutes

SNAKE, RATTLE & ROLL by Frank Dietrich and Zsuzsa Molnar1982

2 :17 minutes Music by Eugene X Rator and Joe Pinzarrone

THE TEMPEST by WTV :

Dean Winkler, Tom DeWitt and Vibeke Sorenson1980-82

4 minutes

VOODOO CHILD by Stephen Beck

1982

6:55 minutesJimi Hendrix Videogram (excerpt from program) ; producer :Stuart Shapiro ; assistant producer : Eric Trigg ; distributedby Electronic Arts Intermix

Total Viewing Time : 55 minutes

CARLA'S ISLAND by Nelson Max

1981

4:26 minutesMusic : Carla Winter ; sound production : Rob Lawrence ; opticaleffects : John Blunden ; computer graphics : Lawrence LivermoreLab (film transfer) ; courtesy Lawrence Livermore Lab

HERBIE HANCOCK by Howard Gutstadt

1982

4 :06 minutesMusic : Emerald Web ; frame store graphics : GESI, Berkeley, CA

March 18, 1983

Woody & Steina VasulkaRoute 6 Box 100Santa FeNM 87501


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Enclosed yota find information and press, announcements from'i E A-UIST &3 T11111 CGiNa"?TlER which I have been collecting throughoutt !e s?lcrv .

If you nave additional press, please let me know .he exhibition was a great success, atten4arice records were broken

witii 16,200 ml;seun visitors attending the show and events .

Thara: you ve i much for your participation ;

the show was excitingto the public because of the diversa elements which carte togetherto represent the best of what is being accomplished by artists usingcomputers .

Each work played an elemental role in fulfilling mycon'L-,,J.ttment to the work you, as artists, are pursuing .

We are still following up on all the many enquiries that weregenerated . by this very stimulating exhibition . We may refer somedir-ctly to you . Thank you once again - I look forward to workingwith you in the future .

DEPARTMENT OF RECREATION AND HUMAN SERVICES

THE BOSTON FILMIVIDEO FOUNDATION,INC. " 1126 BOYLSTON ST. " BOSTON, MASS. 02215 " 617-536-1540

Woody VasulkaRte 6 Box 100Santa Fe, NM 87501

December 10,1986

Dear Woody,

This is to confirm that I want to show your tape, "The Art of Memory", asa work-in-progress,..as part of the show of selections from the AFI Festival .I ronrt__R_n_ow i you are distributing this through EAI but I'd assume thatyou would prefer to have us pay you directly ($50 .00 in conjunction withEAI prices) . It would be great if you could send the tape to us by mid-January,along with program notes, biography and photo, if available, if you want it tobe more extensive than what was in the AFI catalogue .

I'm passing the information we discussed along to Tod . It was great to seeyou both, as usual . Love to you and Steina .

Anne Marie Stein

Anon-profit organization for independent film, video, and performance . A regional Media Arts Center supportedin part by the National Endowment for the Arts and the Commonwealth of Massachusetts Council on theArts and Humanities.

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Dear Stei na and Woody Vasulka ;

24 August 1986

Recently I attended an AFTRA national conventionin Dallas and while doing research at the DallasPublic Library noticed, o r rather was drawn towardyour video THE WEST. Upon inquiry librarian JohnHeld directed me toward you.How did you attain such color intensity in THEWEST and are copies o f your other works available?

and artistic phenomenological perceptions .

It seems to me (and I'm working toward this end) thereis a niche in video/television that can be commerciallyviable and yet retain an artistic integrity . A daywhen experimental video is an accepted mode ofcreativity .

Sincerely,

7~614~x. /$Michael G . McL'augh/in

Presently I'm working on a project (nothing like youdo) funded by the Sacramento Community CableFoundation and am very interested in your techniques

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The "Magasin", National Center for Contemporary Art of Grenoble, ownsone of the rare video art collection in France.

This collection is permanently accessible to the public as a "self service"and also, starting on the 15th of october, will be shown in different onehour programme every two weeks .

In order to realize the different documents (press dossiers, programmes,catalogues) necessary for our public's information,we would like to havea short text concerning each work and some (at least one) black & whitephotographs from that work or at least some indications on what pictureyou would like to see illustrate your text .

The catalogue of our video collection will be published during 1987.You will of course be sent a copy .

We are very happy to have a work of yours in this collection and thankyou in advance for your kind collaboration .

Hoping- to_ have one day the pleasure to welcome vflta in GrenobLe.

Yours sincerily .

Christiane GeoffroyChargee de Mission pour laDiffusion de la Collection Video

P.S . : For any further information you can call me 76 .54 .43 .04 or reachVictoire Dubruel at the MAGASIN 76 .21 .95 .84 .

August 6, 1986

Steina and Woody Vasulka1600 Old Pecos TrailSanta Fe, New Mexico 87501


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Dear Steina and woody,

Thanks a lot for the tape I just got . Happy to have thosefew minutes of Aoody's last work, even if I've not been ableto see it yet .

I saw Linda, and introduced her to some people in Beaubourg,but very shortly, because her time was extrememy limitedin Paris . I liked the films she showed to me, parttcularlyone in black and white made from photographs .

Hope to see you in Los Angeles in decomber .

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I am organizing the exihibition Art in the Computer Age ._ TheImpact of Information Technology on the Arts for the EversonMuseum of Art . This show will present the first comprehensivesurvey of computer-assisted works of art in a museum setting .Included are pieces of historic importance as well as thoseindicative of the most recent advances in the field of computerimaging .

As the first comprehensive exhibition documenting thediverse applications of the computer as an artist's tool, Art inthe Computer Age will undoubtedly generate both an enormouspublic interest and media response . This exhibition will open atthe Everson in the fall of 1987 and then tour to the CincinnatiContemporary Arts Center, the Dayton Art Institute, the IBMGallery of Science and Art in New York as well as two additionalvenues .

I would like to view some of your videos for possible inclusionin this exhibition .

Could you please send copies of them to meat the address below .

If you have slides of several frames fromthese tapes

send them as well as any documentary material aboutthese pieces and/or your work .

I hope that you will not find myrequests too much of an inconvenience and look forward to hearingfrom you .

P .S . Enclosed please find a letter which I sent to you before Ilearned of your current address .

PhoenixArtMuseum

30 June 1987

Steina VasulkaBox 100 Route 6Santa Fe, NM 87501

Dear Steina,

Phoenb-ArtMuseum

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I spoke with Woody today while you were out "playing the violin,"and we resolved the arrangements for our inclusion of Scapes of Paradoxyin the 1987 Phoenix Biennial . Woody agreed to lend us two videotapedecks for the duration of the exhibition . We will pay for your roundtrip airfare to install the piece, for your overnight lodging, andfor your meals while you are here . I think I have located a donor toprovide the television sets, but Woody wasn't sure whether or not youwanted to use more than two .

Would you please let me know as soon as possible how many 25" televisionsyou will need? Also, I would appreciate it if you would send the completedand signed loan forms as soon as possible . And if you have slides and/orblack and white prints of the piece, I would also appreciate your sendingthem .

John Connell mentioned when he was here that he would be willing tobring the tapedecks when he comes to install his sculptures . He willdrive with his art in his van and can easily fit the tapedecks in theshipment . If you don't mind, you and John can work out the arrangements .I will ask John to keep me informed, and you and I will keep in touch .

I really appreciate your willingness to waive your usual fee forparticipating in this exhibition . I think it is very important for yourwork to be represented in the show and I am very happy to have thispiece .

Warm regards,

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Dear S&W,

November 26, 1985

I've been meaning to write to you for some time, not only tosay hi and see how you both are, but also to thank you forthe introduction to Richard Kennedy . At least I assumed itwas you who mentioned me to him since he prefaced hisconversation with a comment to the effect that lie representedor distributed some of your work .

His project sounds very ambitious and exciting . And sinceI recently sat on a panel on guerilla television and had anopportunity to see some of those early (1969-72) videotapesagain, my enthusiasm about that whole period was rekindled .There was some great stuff that still holds up today -- theaudience was hysterical and so were we . Panelists includedBen Levine (People's Video Theatre/Survival Arts Media),Bill Stephens (Black Panther Party), John Reilly (Global Village),Skip Blumberg (Videofreex, TVTV and more) and me (Women'sVideo Festival) -- moderated by Deirdre Boyle for AnthologyFilm Archives .

Everyone was on their best behaviour and there were somefunny moments and nostalgic anecdotes . When I look aroundat the gross yuppie aesthetic and ambition prevalent now itmakes me realize more fully how significant and vibrant thespirit of those earlier days was . I don't really think thisis just age and wisdom -- I think it's more a sign of thetimes we're living in now .

Anyway I am well and currently working as line producer onan* NEH funded documentary about how people speak English inthe U .S . Called AMERICAN TONGUES, it's being produced bya place called the Center for New American Media, which isreally two guys who recently moved here from New Orleans .I'm enjoying the work and have high hopes for the completedprogram which is supposed to tell the story in 60 minutesalthough the topic is broad enough for a mini-series .Last week, for example, I spoke with Ramona Lenny, the divaof 0 through 9 . She's the woman who recorded all the numbersused by Telephone Directory Assistance . Do you think thiswoman has an accent?

Since I started this job in August I've been on the roadalmost continually . Away two weeks, home two weeks and soon . Now I've got a break til December sometime when we'llresume our travels and head south . In the meantime, I'menjoying myself and may even squeeze in a short job forthe home video market "Play Bridge with Omar Sharif" . Whenit rains it pours .

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Just a follow-up on our conversation of last week .

31 December, 1981 .

Yes, Ed says that the end of March would be fine for receivingthe article that you proposed to do . We hope to work fast afterthe articles get in, and to go to the printer in April . So pleasedo try and finish it by the . end of March . I can assure youthat the photographs that you mentioned will be printed well .

I will be writing or calling from time to time, as you asked, justto keep you mindful of the article .

Apart from that, best wishes from everyone here for the New Year,and we hope that your phone begins buzzing with increasedregularity .

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ART/MEDIA Events

PERFORMANCES

LECTURES

EXHIBITICIRS

MEDIA EVENTS

OTHER EVENTS

1986

Rachel Rommthal - Fe b. 22Center for Contemporary Arts, Santa Fe

Terry

- Feb. 7KiMeatre, Albuquerque

Paul Bob - Feb, 15Center or Contemporary Arts, Santa Fe

Jenny H

-Jan26Universi y of New Mexico, Albuquerque

Hans Haacke - Feb* 13University of New Mexico, Albuquerque

Steve Durland - To Be Announced

"Artists Working With The Media Politically"Fine Arts Museum, University of New MexicoJan . 7 - Feb 23

ART/MEDIA Video Show - JanuaryCollege of Santa to and/or Museum of Fine Arts, SF

Print '.Media egntainint specifical3y designed work by artists-Billboards by artists - around Albuquerque

Radio - Interviews with artists and artists'sound works

TV - Artistst videos aired-on local stations

Video workshops for guest artists

Informal discussion groups

Video documentation by Steina and Woody Vasulka

Printed catalogue

Dear Steins and Woody VASULKA, · The Independents Dear Producer, In the Iast six month:-or-so y...

Documents

Transcript of Dear Steins and Woody VASULKA, · The Independents Dear Producer, In the Iast six month:-or-so y...